1. Biersteker refers to the ‘mimetic’ nature of the multilateral development bank (MDBs) and donor agencies. See, Biersteker, T. (1990), ‘Reducing the Role of the State in the Economy: a Conceptual Exploration of IMF and World Bank Prescriptions’, International Studies Quarterly, 34, pp. 477–92.
2. For an analysis of the way policy is developed at the Bank, see MillerAdams, M. (1999), The World Bank: New Agendas in a Changing World (London: Routledge).
3. Shihata, I. (2000), The World Bank in a Changing World, Vol. HI (Dordrecht: Kluwer Law International), p. vii.
4. See, for example, Morganthau, H. (1945). ‘Bretton Woods and International Co-operation’, Foreign Affairs, 23 (2), pp. 182–94.
5. Mikesell, R. (1994), ‘The Bretton Woods Debates: a Memoir’, Essays in International Finance, No. 192, Princeton University, pp. 4–5.